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A quote from the article: "There's so much about programming that is incredibly satisfying and empowering. But it doesn't change the fact that, for me, programming builds an acutely negative mindset over time."

The author of these words seems to miss the fact that all systems that move from one state to another require "negative feedback", but the "negative" in "negative feedback" doesn't have the meaning he's giving it.

The author sees programming as emphasizing the fact that software is usually broken. I see programming as emphasizing the fact that that I can fix it, and once fixed, it remains fixed forever. Compare that to "fixing" relationships, or government, or nearly anything else one can name, all of which respond to your efforts by getting worse.

When viewed this way, programming is (like mathematics) an escape from a world in which efforts to solve problems are either ineffective or make the original problem worse. The fact that the end result might actually be useful to someone is frosting on the cake.
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Ideas like crowdsourced distributed hosting now come to my mind :)
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Let me get this straight.

You are criticizing me for trying to rely on data rather than a complex subjective model based on information from the beliefs of people that I have never met and have no input from? There is no way for me to attempt that approach that does not come down to some form of "making shit up".

More generally you are right that I prefer to work off of data rather than subjective opinion. Data I understand. Subjective opinion is valuable, but suffers from major potential biases. Correcting for that can be very hard.
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Fantastic extension of the Humble Bundle concept. Good titles too, Old Man's War, Pump Six and Zoo City are all great books I've read recently.
Reading the macros first helps. They must be defined at top of program or module, if I recall sweetjs.org's design correctly, for the staged hygienic expansion to work well.

Aside from that, you're right. But JS has higher order functions and objects with ad-hoc methods, so it can be used according to many paradigms, which can make it hard for a reader unfamiliar with the dominant paradigm in code at hand.

This is not a deal-killer for macros, although with sweet.js as the prototyping tool, your assertion about "This is the job" is satisfied. Sweet.js works with node to do AOT macro expansion at present. There's effort to integrate it in the browser too, but this will be easier with ES6 module loaders (not yet prototyped in SpiderMonkey or V8).
This sounds like a very good idea and I would happy pay a few bucks for it on Android the next time I have to travel somewhere I don't speak the language.

Have you considered providing the flip side of the conversation? I would want to use an English interface to present a question and possible answers to a person who speaks another language, but it might also be possible that I'd want to let them pick from a list of phrases/questions in their language and allow me to answer as well.
I'm sorry about that. I went back later to edit in a comment to make it clear that I had incorporated your point into my response but the edit had expired.
Also Ramsey->Kleppner-> Wolfgang Ketterle and and William D. Phillips
I find it interesting that they still provide payment breakdowns by platform... and that Linux and Mac OS are still so much higher than Windows.

When those two were paying for games it was obvious why that should be, since games on Linux are so comparatively scare, but it doesn't make so much sense with eBooks.
Great service.

The code generated out of Divshot really is very clean, with about zero regret for dropping it into an app.

They're iterating like mad and adding new features daily, out in public ( http://divshot.com/changelog ).

I can't wait for the targeting of this for tablets, so I can replace my wireframing and mockup tools there.
As an American, this disturbs me to no end. There are laws on the books to prevent a manufacturer from selling their own product directly to consumers? And what of the benefit? To protect a certain class of sales people.

I'm a licensed real estate agent (non-practicing) and I can understand the need for government regulation to protect consumers from ignorant and unscrupulous sales people but in no way is a home builder prevented from selling their homes directly to home buyers. Real estate law, at least in California, covers required disclosures which apply both to manufacturers and salespeople.

I can understand limiting sale of certain classes of products that can be dangerous if in the hands of the general public but not limiting sales to monopolize a class of salespeople. Especially to the detriment of manufacturers and consumers.

Am I missing something? I can't see who wins except for car dealerships.
I was drawn in by Mercurial, went to GitHub when I switched to Git (the only thing that was holding me back, frankly) but left my private repositories on BitBucket, still in Mercurial. I shall be converting them to git and committing to sticking with BitBucket for all of my private repositories now!
I wonder how many potential employees should consider working for potential employers like edw519 who make such short-sighted decisions. What they care for maybe relevant, but how they care is questionable.
Kubrick's quote from the article:

"Yes, all of the hand-held camerawork is mine. In addition to the fun of doing the shooting myself, I find it is virtually impossible to explain what you want in a hand-held shot to even the most talented and sensitive camera operator."

Kubrick might have benefited from doing a few runs with his camera, THEN showed his camera people that this is how he wanted it. I find this is a powerful technique in delegation. Ie- where most will outsource a task with a rudimentary set of guidelines, the results can be exponentially better if the 'delegator' simply rolls up his or her sleeves and literally does the task at hand, albeit a rough draft first attempt, and shares the results; uses that as the guideline. Like planting a seed with water.
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How would vertical integration between car manufacturers and dealerships be a barrier to entry specifically, given today's tech? I think there would be new car entrants doing what Tesla is doing.
It's this way in every job. Every chef should be thinking, "does what I made taste as good as it can?" Every car repairperson should be thinking "am I doing the best job of replacing this brake caliper? Not banging it around, not kinking the brake hose, not getting greasy fingerprints on the rotor?

In every job you should be thinking about the quality aspects.

It's just that in programming, the problems can numerous, subtle, and hard to find.
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We just finished building an event-driven Java platform that handles all of the market underpinnings and connectivity stuff and exposes a simple interface that lets you get data, process market events and send orders without dealing with a bunch of boring connectivity code.

We have lots of customers using the system and are now looking for some developers that are interested in hacking around on the platform, building a few algos, and (if you want) offering them out on our "Algo Store" to some of our customers. It's great if you have some financial experience, although I can give you some direction if you're looking for some ideas.

We have a few slots open in our dev environment -- basically, if you want to try it out, we'll give you access to a dev slice with live market data and a simulated exchange. No cost or anything -- our customers are traders on the other side that use the algos that you'll sell. If you create an account, you can play around with it, build some cool stuff, and release it. We have a somewhat limited number of slots, so if you're interested, send me an email at algorhythmic1 /at/ gmail /dot/ com and I'll get you set up.
Saw dherman's comment just now, he and you are right that there is a spectrum of TCP, and if you use a subset of JS to write expression-bodied => functions, you get the refactoring property that people associate with TCP.
A few things really upset me with that:

First, books are a special kind of products, they do not obey the same rules as commercial products, they are culture. To explain a little, I am french and we have a law for the unique price of books: the price you will pay for a book will be the same on amazon, at fnac, in your local bookshop or in a supermarket.

Second, the word e-reader is nowhere to be found, ePub is also not prominently featured, contrary to iPad and Kindle. For a no-DRM ebook offer, I would have thought that the standard format for ebooks would be more important than the name of the most DRM-filled devices.

Third, Pirate Cinema, Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners are CC licensed (some NC-ND, some only NC), I would be happy to know the license of the books that are here sold (included the other ones) and in the case of Magic for Beginners if it includes the non CC licensed short stories. For the first humble indie bundle, there was a promise that some games would be opensourced, a similar promise would be great here.
He means that Firebug is better than this new toolbar in his opinion.
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They've got a good shot, because a lot of people need private repositories and do NOT need the social features of Github. They just need a basic git server to hold the master repository. For doing their work, the built-in tools of git are sufficient.

For such people, Github is ridiculously expensive, since their price is based on the number of repositories you have. For instance, at work we've got enough repositories (all small) that we'd need the $200/month Github plan. In terms of storage costs, that works out to about $10/megabyte/month.

That's 5 ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE more than the market rate for cloud storage. When you are selling something 5 orders of magnitude above the market rate, there is room for competitors.
Linux versioning now makes more sense--in that every new release is a minor release. Fits better with the historical use of such numbers.
"I deserve a pat in the back" is not an optimistic attitude... It's self-indulging, that's all.

Optimists see bug reports as a way to improve things. Optimists bet on early tech because they see a bright future ahead (rails 0.9? ios 2.0?).

Being pessimistic will only feed your ulcer...
The solution knocking around my head for this was a "sub-channel" for off-topic corrections to posts, so you can suggest a spelling or grammar alteration without a) cluttering the discussion or b) looking like a <nasty word> for calling them out.
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One more datapoint: can't say I like SourceTree. Still looking for a Mercurial GUI worth using. My biggest issue is that I'm a big user of annotate/blame (I have a very bad memory so finding out where/how/why a given piece of code was created or evolved is something I do at least weekly if not daily) and all the hg guis have absolute shit annotate. They also tend to look rather bad.

GitX is pretty good (I think I still prefer the original one over the Laullon gitx, but the Laullon gitx has an acceptable annotate view and look nice), and surprisingly the best annotate view I've seen so far is in bazaar's qt-based UI. The tools are not necessarily great overall (and the OSX interactions are downright weird), but the annotate is excellent.
That's basically true everywhere. Except that in Singapore, it is explicit.

Are you free to fill your gas tank in New Jersey (hint: no).

Are you free as an american taxpayer to bank outside the US? (hint: no).

Are you free to sell cars in the US? (hint: no)

Are you free to get medical diagnostics of your choice in New York state (paying the market price, of course)? (hint: no)

Are you free to live in California, yet own a liquor store in New York? (hint: no)

There are numerous other examples. The common thread in these examples is that some lobby managed to secure a legislation that guarantees their benefit at your expense. You have about as much power to change that as a Singaporian does to change things in their country.

Really, if you believe that the US is more free than the rest of the western world, you're probably unaware of the local law (and probably of the laws elsewhere)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjEgTuCFLU4&t=0m36s
This was a big one for me switching to GitHub and it is massively improved with this new update.
I agree that we shouldn't be looking at it in terms of hours, but I don't know if it can be measured in terms of happiness (as the author seems to be indicating) either.

What are your goals? What is it going to take for you to achieve those goals? Will you be happy working towards those goals? Is the misery that you're going to have to endure to achieve those goals worth it? Can you sustain that level of misery and still accomplish your goals?

But, it could also mean that you’re just a lot dumber and less efficient than your peers who could do the same thing without pulling an all-nighter.

You may well be dumber than someone who doesn't need an all-nighter to do what you're doing, but you may want the prize you're working towards more than the person getting 8 hours of sleep - so go for it.
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How much repositories do you have?

I think Github's plans are comparable to Bitbucket - it's just the starting tier is a bit more pricey - and, honestly, $7 or $12/mo doesn't make that much difference.
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I do this with things like Hacker News.

The challenge lies in getting motivated to go from the reward back to the work. :-)
Oh, I misread that. Well, apples and oranges.
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Exchange rate info right now is just an approximation that's stored offline. In a next release, we're going to be sourcing information like that more often.
I actually find storybundle a much more intriguing project, whereas Humble is it's usual "Hipster" self - e.g. stuff I've already heard about, stuff that has a fair amount of promotion behind it in there first place.

With books, mostly unlike with video games, curation is an actual value-add: there's absolutely no way any one person could keep on top of all the new book releases.
I've heard for years that the path to a better web would lie in for-pay services. Even here on HN, people often repeat "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer". I don't see an issue with Facebook asking you to pay to give your status a priority over everything else. Advertisers already do just that.

Facebook needs to make money, and having users pay to have placement over ads is a way to do that. It's far from required, but if someone sees value in it, it's there.
They do mention e-readers and formats.

"Compatible with computers and mobile devices. These books are available in multiple formats including PDF, MOBI, and ePub so they work great on your computer, eBook readers, and a wide array of mobile devices!"
I don't think it's useful or accurate to generalize about the subjective experience of programming.
I guess it's personal preference but I find the Google Maps web app to just feel clunky and slow in scrolling around and that bothers me.
Candadian who moved america: America just has it's own special brand of protectionist crap. Americans often buy their medication from Canada due to all the crony capitalism that the USA has encountered with their health care system. Don't get started on the whole corn subsidy SNAFU.

Also the USA has cheaper shopping compared to most of the world. Few places are cheaper, especially for goods that are not food, clothing or similar.

Canada is primarily a resource economy. Minerals, oil & banks take up a majority of of the TSX's value. Symptoms of Dutch Disease are prevalent inside canada itself.
How can they listen if you're not actually talking. It's like buying a product from China and then moaning in your living room there's a defect rather than actually telling them.
Are we reading the same page? Doesn't it mention ebook readers ( thought not e-reader if that is what you CTRL+Fing or something )
So many people there write about warnings...

Imagine you opened new fresh HTML5-based game. It requested fullscreen, you allowed. You finished game and clicked on "Exit fullscreen" button. Then, instead of canceling fullscreen mode, you got just perfect illusion of it. Site author created almost complete replacement of your browser or ever your OS UI. So when you created new tab and entered news.ycombinator.com address it was loaded via proxy.

May be it's already happened in this demo. Wake up, Neo, and press Esc to exit from Matrix, ...sorry, from Fullscreen Mode.
It's worth it to me.... I pay for 10 private repos, and GitHub is one of my favorite tools. I don't like free services.
A lot of people here are commenting on GitHub being 'overpriced' or 'greedy.' TPW did an interview a while ago that has insight into why their pricing structure is the way it is. It's a pretty interesting read:

http://mixergy.com/tom-preston-werner-github-interview/

(search for 'which metrics') to skip to the pricing part).

Money quote: "That’s like buying a car based on how much it weighs. It’s irrelevant."

I may be biased since GitHub does a lot to foster the developer community in my area (I nabbed a sweet contracting gig at one of their drinkups), but I'm perfectly happy with their pricing.
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> First, books are a special kind of products, they do not obey the same rules as commercial products, they are culture. To explain a little, I am french and we have a law for the unique price of books: the price you will pay for a book will be the same on amazon, at fnac, in your local bookshop or in a supermarket.

And that idea itself is a cultural thing. Most Americans (even liberals) would literally barf at the idea of having "a law for the unique price of books" as being European-style socialism.
I'm sure my error rate is a fraction what it used to be but I'm producing far more code and working on far larger problems. You better hope that areas of improvement on are the ones that scale to larger problems.
Wait a second, you consider price-fixing of (e)books in France a good thing?

Where I live it's cheaper to buy books online in the UK and have them shipped over than to buy them in the local bookstore. So that's what people do. And local bookstores are dying. No surprise, given that it's illegal for them to drop their prices to a competitive level.
Oh, I was just noting that the Volt's system for getting power to the wheels is more complex than the "series hybrid" it is widely believed to be. I.E., the engine is not merely just a generator, as it is the case of the Fisker Karma. (It was late, and I wasn't actually making a comment on the cost justification of the maintenance program.)

But I agree that the pricing of the maintenance program should be independent of the complexity of the vehicle architecture. One is an engineering decision, the other is largely marketing & customer relations (not to the exclusion of financials, of course).

As far as Tesla's choice to price their program at $600 a year, it seems in poor form for a luxury priced vehicle. To me, the hallmark of a true "concierge" level of service (which is what Musk indicated as their goal) would be that it's included in the vehicle price, at least for the first few years, a la BMW. Beyond that, perhaps they should just take a page from Apple's book, and offer an extended "Tesla Care" warranty program to continue the service.

$600 a year seems like petty nickle and diming your customer if you're already charging them 80 to 100K for the car.
To use an old phrase, I work hard and I party hard. I massively enjoy both aspects of my life, and whenever it gets "out of balance" (not enough working or not enough fun) I begin to feel bad. Everyone has their own balance to find, but I agree it's really important to experience both ends of that scale to work out where your own middle is. I've worked 9am - 3am before, which was too much work, and I took 6 months off work before starting at my current position, which was too little work.
Try it again in 6 months. You won't regret it.
And if you're a programmer, sometimes you fix the big bug that a huge sale depends on, and sometimes you create a feature that your customers love.

And, I take it you've never ever been in sales.

What many companies do is put everyone's name on a board, and everyone's sales are complete public knowledge. Every time you make a sale, you walk up the board and add another tick to your column. It's a way to shame people into not being the worst salesperson in the company. And at the end of the month/quarter, you start all over again. My closest friend as well as my cousin went through this process, and quit after a couple of years of having their self-esteem completely trampled upon.
It does in an employee market. If it's an employer market (which it is during economic downturns), then company A will offer your a job with no vacation, and company B will offer you a job with no vacation AND no overtime payment. And there are no other companies, and most people can't start their own.

A free market is an inherently unstable equilibrium. If you don't put protection in place to make it stable, it will quickly stop being free.

Of course, if you put too much protection, you get other unwanted effects, like promoting mediocrity. Extremes, either way, are bad.
Not necessarily.

1) People on github paid plans might switch. Thus github will make less and bitbucket more.

2) People who don't use github due to cost might sign up for paid bitbucket plans.
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